A heritage professor learning the harassment f an anarchist commune in south Puget Sound in 1902 is drawn into disputes on his personal campus in regards to the appointment of a wonderful feminist professor of yank stories and an alleged case of sexual harassment.

The chinese language Parrot (1926) is the second one novel within the Charlie Chan sequence of poser novels by means of Earl Derr Biggers. it's the first within which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and includes a criminal offense whose publicity is hastened via the demise of a parrot. the tale matters a priceless string of pearls that is bought by way of a prosperous and whimsical financier.

Born in 1805 at the Lewis and Clark day trip, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau is the son of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. he's raised either as William Clark’s ward in St. Louis and by way of his mom and dad one of the villages of the Mandan tribe at the a long way northern reaches of the Missouri river. In 1823 eighteen-year-old Baptiste is invited to pass the Atlantic with the younger Duke Paul of Württemberg, whom he meets at the frontier.